I mean it was fun and perfectly playable, but I just felt I'd seen it all before and wasn't overly impressed with any element of it.

I was the same initially, but watch say a YouTube video of someone who knows what there doing and it my surprise you. It make made me go back with a fresh pair of eyes anyway

I did this recently. Watching Youtube videos has tempted me to go download the demo again and play through it for the 3rd time. It definitely looks good from the videos but I can't say i thought much of it during my initial playthrough. That could change

It did turn up today after all. Is it me or is it insanely difficult? Only on normal and this dog thing is destroying me. Not helped by the camera constantly doing its own thing even when my thumb is nowhere near the right stick, and too often when I go to parry he just attacks instead (yes I'm doing it at the right time).

There's a lock on button?! Didn't see that in the tutorial. I know sometimes if you parry you get a super slow-mo slice-a-thon but so far just had that with one soldier, never this thing. So far I'm just standing back and parrying, about one time in six it lands close enough for me to do some damage, and getting some in. The main problems arise when it does that bounce around then pounce with the tail move, which I can't seem to parry, all I can do is sprint away, at which point the camera starts rotating at random, I have no idea where it is, it's then just chance.

Best I've done so far is past the round of soldiers and the biped thing and got it down to about 12% but usually don't even get that far. The most annoying thing is when it lands a hit that brings up the left stick QTE, then lands another attack before the QTE even finishes, and gets stuck in that loop. In one fight it got my health from 100% to dead without me ever getting out of the QTE loop. So how do I lock on? That would help!

Got it earlier today, finished normal mode in under 5 hours. That was one of the craziest fucking end fights I've ever seen in my entire gaming life. And I've had a long gaming life. Not gonna spoil anything, no worries

@anthonypappa Those mean that you created an opening to use the slice mechanic. So as soon as you see it press L1 and slice em up if you need to. Also, all enemies telegraph their moves by flashing red or by going into a pretty lavish animation.